Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company founded by the team the developed Facebook’s data infrastructure, today announced the addition of Apache Spark to the Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform. With the addition of Apache Spark, QDS broadens the types of workloads data scientists and data analysts can run on demand via the cloud, without the hassles, … continue reading
RapidMiner, the industry’s easiest-to-use Modern Analytics platform, today announced significant updates to the most comprehensive advanced analytics offering on the market today. In a world where data lakes are often used solely as a repository for information, underutilized due to the state of the market and limits of technology, RapidMiner’s aggressive advances turn the tide … continue reading
Altiscale, Inc., the leading provider of Hadoop-as-a-Service, today announced that Kerberos authentication is now available in the Altiscale Data Cloud. Altiscale is the first and only Hadoop-as-a-Service provider that will automatically include Kerberos authentication as part of its service offering. Kerberos, originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a user and network … continue reading
IBM shifts data science into high gear today with the announcement of new In-Hadoop analytics technologies to accelerate the conversion of data into valuable insight for the business. IBM is delivering machine learning, R, and many new features that can run over large-scale data in the new IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop. A growing number … continue reading
Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS), today introduced Skytap running on SoftLayer infrastructure. This new offering enables enterprises to rapidly deploy software development and test environments that seamlessly migrate entire complex environments between Skytap and IBM cloud centers globally. Skytap’s EaaS environment allows customers to rapidly develop and test in the cloud, … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced at Strata + Hadoop World the latest release of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, which has new features that accelerate the data-centric enterprise by supporting real-time applications on globally-distributed, big and fast data. The latest innovations from MapR optimize data architectures, making … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, announces the release of new mobile controls supporting Xamarin.Forms as part of Essential Studio for Xamarin, as well as an e-book on cross-platform mobile development, Xamarin.Forms Succinctly. Essential Studio for Xamarin provides unique Excel, Word, and PDF file format manipulation libraries and flexible data visualization components for … continue reading
The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The FAA proposal offers safety rules for small UAS (under 55 pounds) conducting non-recreational operations. The rule would … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, featuring updates designed to serve as the foundation for building OpenStack-powered clouds for enterprise businesses with advanced cloud users, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting providers. Red … continue reading
Appcito, a cloud application delivery company, today launched its cloud-native Cloud Application Front End (CAFE) service, which unifies all the application delivery services—including load balancing, application security, continuous deployment, performance optimization, and application analytics and insights—needed for delivering both traditional and micro services-based applications. Purpose-built for the cloud and for today’s agile application operations teams, … continue reading
Saama Technologies, Inc., the leading pure-play analytics solutions company, today announced Fluid Analytics Engine, a highly flexible analytics technology that results in fast, measurable business outcomes exactly suited to meet customer needs. This allows companies to use advanced analytics for competitive advantages in days or weeks as opposed to months or quarters, in even the … continue reading
Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of Apache Hadoop, today announced it has signed an agreement with Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) to jointly promote and support Hadoop. The agreement enables HDS to deliver Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), the industry’s only 100-percent open source data platform powered by Apache Hadoop, to Hitachi’s enterprise customers. … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the choice of more than two million software professionals for building and delivering the world’s best applications, has made two major enhancements to Collaborator, the only tool available that allows peer review of code, user stories, test plans, Excel files and other documentation. The new JSON API functionality allows integrations with other products … continue reading
Mesosphere, creators of the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) for managing datacenter and cloud resources at scale, and MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced Myriad, the first resource management framework that allows Apache YARN jobs to run alongside other applications and services in enterprise and cloud datacenters. Based … continue reading
